Neolithic

how Greek advances helped shape the modern world, but it is also important to understand how the Greek way of life evolved and where this culture came from. Greece began as most civilizations did, with the settlement of nomadic people during the Neolithic Period. The areas…

Women throughout history are known to be very powerful figures in different movements and time periods, they play impacting roles in our society and proved to us many times that women are certainly “great” as well. Although they are often judged for their supposedly weak minds and bodies, women still accomplished numerous of things of great importance. Cleopatra prevented Egypt from expanding the Roman Empire during Ancient Egypt, Catherine the Great westernizing Russia and improving Russian…

D. Why is the Knossos Palace laid out in a rather irregular form? The largest Minoan site, The palace and labyrinth at Knossos, is also perhaps the most widely known Minoan site throughout the world. Directly under this site are the remains of Neolithic settlements. These ancient remains had been under the site for thousands of years. The settlements were detached structures that made the shape of a large rectangular court. Around 1700 BC an earthquake demolished these settlements, so the new…

in 1453 CE the Ottoman Empire avoided trade with any body west and the Ottomans captured Constantinople. Although the Silk Road had many historical events, there were major historical periods that concluded significant times in world such as the Neolithic Period (8000-1500 BCE) in China and shortly after in Southeast Asia the Bronze/Iron Age (1000 BCE - 500 CE). Innovations like writing, urban civilization, and tools were the most remarkable improvements by China. The Iron Age…

Taking a Look Into the Past, Understanding it Now American author Elizabeth Wayland Barber, who is an expert on textiles, wrote the book Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times in 1994, which takes the reader into the world as it was many years ago. In doing so, it enlightens one on how and why the women created textiles and eventually advanced and created other things. Today people know the clothes worn were made and the blankets used were created, but do…

Imagine walking down the street minding your own business. Looking at the clouds, paying attention to the different shapes of trees and listening to the sounds of birds communicating to each other. You notice something unrelated to nature that seems to follow you wherever you go; the stares from other people and the feeling of judgment. The reaction that your presence has on another person. You automatically create a deeper issue within yourself and of the reactions of others around you.…

Alcohol has been around for thousands of years, first discovered by Neolithic humans. In the late 1700s, most Americans drank alcoholic beverages and preferred these beverages to drinking water, which was often contaminated. Alcohol was never viewed as a serious problem in America until after the Revolution. In the early nineteenth century, physicians, ministers, and larger employers created the anti-alcohol (temperance) movement. This movement was the result of concern about the drunkenness of…

Fashion, the popular trend in styles of clothing, can be observed through out human history. From the fur hides of the Neolithic, to the Victorian dresses of 19th century, and to the “standard” clothing that the society perceives of today, fashion is ubiquitous. Fashion – especially women’s fashion – however, stands beyond its practicality and ornamentation to make and to mark the social, cultural, and psychological atmosphere of the era. In this paper, one seeks to examine the rise of trousers…

ripening fruit for survival. Also, during this time early religious beliefs were called animism and that is the belief that the world was full of spirits and forces that might reside in animals, objects, or dreams. Yet, multiple years later there was a Neolithic agriculture revolution, people begin to grow their own crops, which gave them a reason to settle in farming villages so they could grow their food instead of catch it. Then 6000 years later, in the year 3000 B.C., it was the beginning of…

History tells the story of human kinds past. The human species evolved from hunters and gatherers to Neolithic people, who began to build villages, which turned to cities all around the world. This transition gave humans a new way of life, focusing on things like building cultures and monuments, which will stand the tests of time. Throughout history, many civilizations have sprung up with different cultures, ideas, technologies, and political systems. However, not all these civilizations…